Quick and Easy Weight Loss? My Hole!

BlowfishFairy 1; Weighing scales 0

Weight loss so far: 2st

Goal weight loss: 3st 7lbs (only 1.5st to go!)

I have spent many a long hour searching for quick and easy weight loss tips, and have found many questionable sites (see my previous post-http://blowfishfairy.blogspot.ie/2012/10/pro-anorexia-websites-seriously.html )! Articles that promise you'll lose a stone in a fortnight, or drop a dress size in a week...
I have tried them all. Let me tell you a few little things about them:

1. You may lose weight...Why? Because they have what I like to call the laxative effect on your poor (albeit a little flabby) body. Personally, I don't think it's worth it.

2. If you were lucky enough to lose the weight, as soon as you starting eating regularly (and healthily) again you WILL gain the weight back.

3. Some people don't lose a lb. This may be because your body when you start fad-dieting, your body goes in to survival mode and holds onto fat to save energy for the famine you are putting it through.

When dieting I work under the general rules that a) every body is different, so what works for some may not work for you and b) you cannot expect to lose weight on just dieting alone, or exercising alone. The two come hand in hand and work very well together.

I followed RTE's Operation Transformation. Making their low calorie dinners ( I live with my parents so most of the time my mam cooked for me), and jogging in the morning before my breakfast, worked wonders for me!

I started in January and lost a stone in two months. After that, it took a lot of motivation (of which I was quickly running out!) and by the summer I'd lost a further 1/2 stone (weight loss slows down after the initial drop). I took the summer off because, well, who wants to be counting calories when they're sunning themselves in Malta! Summer is a time for indulging in ice cold beers and barbeques...not exactly diet friendly! I was delighted with myself that I'd pretty much managed to maintain my weight loss. So by September I was ready for another go on the diet wagon. So far I've lost another 1/2 stone. If only by I could lose another stone Christmas I'd be one happy festive bunny!!

So that's my story of how weight loss is difficult, but as we all know anything worth having is not easily got.
You need to give yourself a break, otherwise you'll get bored and boredom = gaining weight.

K

This me before I started losing weight:

And this is me after: 

 

Pro-Anorexia Websites?? Seriously?!

Those of you who know me well, know that I have never been entirely happy with my weight. It's something that I can be very sensitive about and I'm likely to snap your head off if you say anything about it that's less than complimentary! So, when surfing the internet for quick and easy weight loss tips I came across a website that offered these things. It turned out to be a pro-anorexia website. I'd only read about these types of sites in magazines and never really thought much about them. But when faced with the reality of this website I was completely blown away by how unbelievably dangerous they are for girls (and boys) who are suffering from this awful illness! 

Seriously? 

This particular website offers 20 tips on how to anorexic especially if your young and still living with your parents....One such tip is 

17. Leave traces of food that you would have eaten. For example, when I was in high school my mom made me eat breakfast. So I would get up a little earlier, go to the kitchen, make some toast, fix some cereal, and get out a yoghurt  Toast the bread (leave the toaster out), put crumbs on the plate, pour some cereal and throw it down the garbage disposal, do the same with the yoghurt  If the food isn't there, your parents will think that you ate it!

It also lists the 'thin commandments' as reasons to be anorexic!!

If you aren’t thin, you’re ugly.
Being thin and perfect are signs of true determination.Being thin is way more important than being healthy.
You must do anything to make yourself look thinner.
Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.
Thou shall not eat fattening foods without punishing yourself accordingly.
Thou shall always count calories.
The scale is everything.
Losing=Life, Gaining=Death
You must become thin.

Am I being stupidly naive in thinking that websites like these should be banned because of the potential damage caused to the people taking heed of such tips? 

To actually recommend that someone put their body through the physical hardship of starving themselves is not only physically damaging but mentally so!

Surely there's someone out there as outraged as I am about this...?

Something needs to be done about these websites, but what? Any ideas?

K